Our vision at the Education Department of Marres is based on our Training the Senses program. This program is made out of the idea that next to our cognitive skills we can also learn something from our senses: by smelling, hearing, tasting and feeling. Often these senses give us a lot information without us being fully aware. By not only using textual learning methods, our education is accesible to a bigger group of people. Age and level of education doesn’t matter if you use the senses because these need a different kind of training. Think of a surgeon who has to studie for a very long time but also needs his hands with proper sense of touch. The use of the senses is not always taken into value but can give a very memorable experience.

At the education department of Marres we try to make programs and project that are based on using the senses. This is not always easy because we are so used to writing everything down in words. But the programs we develop are trying to give our visitors an experience by using the senses.